Tufted fabric.



No. 678,347. Patented July 9, I901.

- A; F. IIIRODK.

TUFTED FABRIC.

(Application filed pct. 29, 1900.;

(No Model.)

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UNITED STATES ALBERT F. MROGK, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

TU FTED FABRIC.

SBECIFIGATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 678,347, dated July 9, 1901.

Application filed October 29,1900.

semi No. 34,739. (No model.)

T0 at whom it may concern.-

Be it known that LALBERT F. MROCK,a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Tufted Fabrics, of which the following is a specification. Y

Tufted fabric as heretofore made is formed by assembling the facing and backing fabrics with a thick filling of cotton-batting, hair, or other material between said fabrics, stitching with thread at regular intervals through the Whole, and drawing the thread tight to make a depression at each of the points where it passes through the facing. This operation forms the facing into tufts or biscuit, but requires a considerable degree of skill in the workman to form the tufts of equal size and height and consumes much filling material.

The object of this invention is the production of a form of tufting having a backing to serve as a guide for the formation of the tufts, which backing by its use also saves a large portion of the filling material.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a face View of a section of tufted fabric, the facing and the filling being removed from the backing in the lower portion of said figure in order to show said backing. Fig. 2 is a transverse section on dotted line 2 2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of a piece of the backing, showing the rear side thereof.

Like letters of reference indicate corresponding parts throughout the several views.

In the production of this tufting I provide a backing-sheet A, formed from strawboard, wood-pulp, or other suitable substance or material and being provided in its face with the depressions A, having the openings A at their lower ends. These depressions A are formed in the backing-sheet A byany suitable means, as by pressing. The under side of said backing-sheet may be covered with a thickness of cloth A as is shown in Fig. 2, to give additional strength to said backing. When strawboard or other similar substance is employed in making this backing-sheet, it is first rendered plastic or pliable by steaming or otherwise moistening it, and after being subjected to the pressure or other operation for forming the depressions A and the openings A in the body of the material it is placed in a drying-oven and subjected to heat until it is thoroughly dry.

When the backingA is dry and it is desired to cover it, a thickness of cotton-batting B or other filling is spread over the face of said body portion and the facing fabric 0, of "satin or other goods, placed upon said 7 filling B. The operative taking a needle and 6c thread D sews once forward and back through the opening A at the bottom of each of the depressions A, drawing the thread D tight to cause the facing material 0 to be drawn into said depressions to form the tuft or biscuit E therein, imparting to the facing material C the general surface form of the backing-sheet A. I

It is clear that various substances may be used for a backing material, also that differcut forms of tuft may be employed, Without departing from the spirit of my invention.

I claim as my invention- 1. In atufted fabric, in combination, a rigid backing-sheet having depressions at suitable 7 5 intervals in its face; a facing material; and means for drawing said facing material into the depressions of the backing-sheet.

2. In a tufted fabric, in combination, a rigid backing-sheet having depressions at suitable 8o intervals in its face; a facing material; and means for securing the facing material to the backing-sheet, and for drawing said facing material into the depressions of said backing sheet.

3. In a tufted fabric, in combination, a rigid backing-sheet having depressions at regular intervals in its face, with openings through the backing-sheet in said depressions; a filling material; a facing material; and a thread 0 for securing the facing material to the backing-sheet, and for drawing said facing material into the depressions of said backingsheet.

4. In upholstery, the combination of a form 9 5 composed of a rigid sheet of material having tufts and tuft-pits; a cover adapted to the outline of the form; and means to secure the two together at the tuft-pits.

ALBERT F. MROCK.

Witnesses:

GEO. L. CHINDAHL, L. L. MILLER. 

